THE GLASS CHILD

CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

 

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Songwriter.  Author.  Dreamer. Wanderer.

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    Writing from The Road

    Writing from The Road

    It's nights like these I feel like a kite. On the run from something I can't remember, but still I keep on running, just in case. They...
    The Year I Changed My Own Character

    The Year I Changed My Own Character

    But no one will come and save you. No one will take your hand and guide you to a better life. You must create it yourself.
    If you say I have something to fight for, I will fight.

    If you say I have something to fight for, I will fight.

    I want to write about the things that matter, that make your stomach turn inside out. My fingers run smoothly over the keys once they get st
    I'm trying, as I always will

    I'm trying, as I always will

    No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself ...
    it could have been so beautiful

    it could have been so beautiful

    It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again and it could have been so
    My favorite Charles Bukowski poems

    My favorite Charles Bukowski poems

    My favorite quotes and poems by Charles Bukowski: one of my favorite writers.
    i’m not trying to be cute, i’m trying to be honest.

    i’m not trying to be cute, i’m trying to be honest.

    i don’t think i’m really happy yet and sometimes i think money will make me happy but does no money really make me unhappy? sometimes i want
    I would go places, they said, once.

    I would go places, they said, once.

    They tell me I have an interesting life. Going places, seeing people, and I shrug my shoulders as I pour another drink, sitting lonely on my
    Growing up is a wonderful thing to do

    Growing up is a wonderful thing to do

    I want to be a safe aura in a sea of worries and uncertainty. I want to stand for clarity where only chaos seems to grow.
    become one with the current.

    become one with the current.

    You just have to learn to float with the current more, not fight against things. Change, movement, transitions ... you have to become one wi
    with the stars above me

    with the stars above me

    I don’t think of other years, past or future, the mornings in the hallways, wanting someone to stay. anyone. I think nothing of that ...
    i will be a writer now ...

    i will be a writer now ...

    Someone once said, “Get your heart real good broken and you’ll be a poet for the rest of your life”. I don’t actually know if someone ...
    The Sweetest Rain

    The Sweetest Rain

    This morning I woke up to the sound of white rain shattering on my window. The raindrops kept falling like the sweetest music, leaving ...
    Another Vagabond Lost To Love

    Another Vagabond Lost To Love

    6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. Blurred out lines from hangovers to...
    Drunk on someone else's love

    Drunk on someone else's love

    5am again, drunk on someone else’s love, or couch, and I’ve never felt more at home. I fled myself, from the life I’ve built because I’ve...
    I am not a broken heart

    I am not a broken heart

    I am the way a life unfolds and blooms and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest ...
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      5am
      again,
      drunk on someone else’s love,
      or couch,
      and I’ve never felt more at home.

      ​

      I fled myself,
      from the life I’ve built
      because I’ve been inhabiting routines I don’t want to stand for.

      Inhabiting skin I’d rather shed
      but still took on
      like a soldier serving his country,
      for that’s what they told me to do.
      But I was not
      strong
      or wise,
      but young and foolish,
      for what is this thing? Trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance,

      and I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
      with clean blood
      and organised drawers.
      I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
      at night when no one else is alive,
      or awake,
      however you choose to see it,
      and I live in my own flames.
      Sometimes burning too bright and too wild
      to make things last 
      or handle
      myself or anyone else
      and so I run.
      Run run run,
      far and wide
      until my bones ache and lungs split
      and it feels good.
      Hear that, people? It feels good,
      because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
      and I wish to do with it exactly as I please,
      and living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times,

      because I never volunteered to take this on.

      The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,
      the forever on going task of explaining this and that,
      and why I don’t want to look like this and
      be like that
      but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.
      If this is the place I’ve been given, I’m sure as hell gonna make this work.

      ​

      So I fled the me that was never really me and I’m on my way. To newer lands and uncleaned streets
      for I’ve had enough of childish safety in comfort.
      Enough of all telling me to look and do, like this and that,

      and I never meant to please anyone but myself
      and you can call me selfish,
      throw words like knives in the dark but I will not listen,
      for not listening to sharp words brought me to where I am today
      and I believe in the path I’ve been given. If my only task in this life is to walk it,
      I surely will walk it
      prouder than anyone else.

      ​

      If this is the path I’ve been given, I will walk it
      prouder than anyone else,
      for no one else can.

      ​

      // from my book You’re Doing Just Fine ☾

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